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Cohere launches North Mini Code for agentic software engineering

Cohere has released North Mini Code, a new 30 billion parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 3 billion active parameters, designed for agentic software engineering tasks. This model is the first in Cohere's new family of models and is available under the Apache 2.0 license on Hugging Face. Benchmarks indicate North Mini Code performs competitively against other open-source coding models of similar size, and even surpasses some larger models on coding benchmarks. AI

IMPACT Sets a new benchmark for open-source coding models, potentially accelerating agentic software development.

RANK_REASON This is a new model release from a frontier lab (Cohere) with system card details. [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Cohere launches North Mini Code for agentic software engineering

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  1. Hugging Face Blog TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Introducing North Mini Code: Cohere’s First Model For Developers